1st Edition

Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia

Edited By Nissim Otmazgin, Eyal Ben-Ari Copyright 2012
232 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in official thinking toward the role of popular culture in the political life of states brought about by... Read more

Introduction   1. Cultural Industries and the State in East and Southeast Asia, Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben Ari   Part I: Popular Culture and Soft Power   2. Does Popular Culture Matter to International Relations Scholars? Possible Links and Methodological Challenges, Galia Press-Barnathan   3. Popular Culture as a Tool for Japanese ‘Soft Power’: Myth or Reality? Manga in Four European Countries, Jean Marie Bouissou   4. Delusional Desire: Soft Power and TV Dramas, Chua Beng Huat   Part II: The Processes of Policy Making   5. Nationalizing ‘Cool’: Japan's Government Global Policy toward the Content Industry, Kukhee Choo   6. Copyright Law as a New Industrial Policy? Japan’s Attempts to Promote its Contents Industry, Kozuka Souichirou   7. Managing the Transnational, Governing the National: Cultural Policy and the Politics of ‘The Cultural Archetype Project in South Korea’, Jung-Yup Lee   Part III: Cultural Policy and the Dynamics of Censorship   8. Post-Socialism and Cultural Policy: The Depoliticization of Culture in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s China, Pang Laikwan   9. Banned in China: The Vagaries of Censorship, Marwyn S. Samuels   10. Manipulating Historical Tensions in East Asian Popular Culture, Kwai Cheung Lo   11. Silence and Protest in Singapore’s Censorship Debates, Cherian George

Biography

Nissim Otmazgin is a Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Eyal Ben-Ari is a Professor of Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.